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10 Dark Fantasy Classics to Read Beyond The Witcher and Game of Thrones

A curated list highlights ten dark fantasy novels aimed at fans of The Witcher and A Song of Ice and Fire. It notes the subgenre’s surge in popularity over the last two decades was fueled by those franchises and their television adaptations. The recommendations stress morally grey protagonists in violent, unjust worlds and spotlight unadapted classics like Glen Cook’s The Black Company and Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen.

• Dark fantasy’s mainstream rise over the past 20 years is tied to George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher plus their TV adaptations.
• The subgenre is characterized by morally grey characters navigating violent, unjust worlds.
• The list highlights ten specific novels as top picks for fans, including Glen Cook’s The Black Company and Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen.
• Several recommended works have not received television adaptations and are presented as strong alternatives to better-known adapted series.